About the course
How many chimneys are there in the surrounding area? What color is the smoke from the chimneys? What does it smell like? Often we ask ourselves what impact individual emitters (such as chimneys in buildings and dwellings heated by coal or wood) have on air quality in their immediate surroundings, our residential area, school, or workplace. Monitoring stations for air quality are set up according to current regulations. Very often, such spatial resolution does not provide us with access to information about aerosanitary conditions in our town, so we look for other sources of data. Internet portals and mobile apps allow us to check air quality at any point. However, it is necessary to answer the question of what these data are and where they come from, whether they are measurement data (from the national network, or based on low-cost sensors), or whether they come from mathematical models.
Matters
- When to expect a decrease in air quality?
- What pollutants threaten us in winter, and what in summer?
- Why is it difficult to determine air quality at a local scale?
- Where to get information about air quality?
- How to determine air quality when there is no sensor in the area where we live?
Authors
Life Mapping Air / PL Project Team